Vista Home Premium - Windows Mail Problem

[Steve]

I've Vista running on an Acer laptop and trouble free, but yesterday,
WindowsMail is failing to download messages from the POP server. It
downloads the first two then the next one "gets stuck". Eventually the
download times out and I get a "wait another 60 seconds or stop" type of
message. Everytime I go into WindowsMail it downloads the same two
messages and hangs inthe same way.

I've seen this problem before in OE6 on an XP machine, and then the problem
could be corrected by deleting the relevant .dbx file. So I tried renaming
"Inbox" to "Inbox_old" and restarted WindowsMail. Vista seem to have some
clever restore mechanism, because it recovered the "problem" and didn't
give me a clean new inbox.

Any clues on how I can get this "unstuck"?

Steve

 

[Robert Martin]

Not that I recommend this but ..

Try turning off your anti virus.
I've had similar problems when a junk mail had
weird characters in it.

HTH

Robert

 

[Greg]

Oh yeah, that's REAL smart. The problem with your system could be several
things. But the most seriously possible needs to be delt with first, you've
likely downloaded a trogen and it's trying to use your computer to broadcast
the virus to everyone of your contacts. What you NEED to do is get a FREE
(NO CHARGE, and don't let any site try to bullshit you) program/utility
called SPYBOT SEARCH and DESTROY . Download it from a reputable site like
MAJORGEEKS or DOWNLOAD.com and set it up (VERY easy) then just let it run in
default mode

 

[Jrz]

I've Vista running on an Acer laptop and trouble free, but yesterday,
WindowsMail is failing to download messages from the POP server. It
downloads the first two then the next one "gets stuck". Eventually the
download times out and I get a "wait another 60 seconds or stop" type
of message. Everytime I go into WindowsMail it downloads the same two
messages and hangs inthe same way.

I've seen this problem before in OE6 on an XP machine, and then the
problem could be corrected by deleting the relevant .dbx file. So I
tried renaming "Inbox" to "Inbox_old" and restarted WindowsMail. Vista
seem to have some clever restore mechanism, because it recovered the
"problem" and didn't give me a clean new inbox.

Any clues on how I can get this "unstuck"?

download and use Thunderbird to get past the bad email

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

I've Vista running on an Acer laptop and trouble free, but yesterday,
WindowsMail is failing to download messages from the POP server. It
downloads the first two then the next one "gets stuck". Eventually the
download times out and I get a "wait another 60 seconds or stop" type of
message. Everytime I go into WindowsMail it downloads the same two
messages and hangs inthe same way.

I've seen this problem before in OE6 on an XP machine, and then the
problem could be corrected by deleting the relevant .dbx file. So I tried
renaming "Inbox" to "Inbox_old" and restarted WindowsMail. Vista seem to
have some clever restore mechanism, because it recovered the "problem"
and didn't give me a clean new inbox.

Any clues on how I can get this "unstuck"?

Steve

If there's a Webmail page for the account use that to read and delete the
third message.